Maldives foreign minister elected as UN assembly president
UNITED NATIONS — Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid of the Maldives defeated Afghanistan’s former foreign minister Zalmai Rassoul in an election Monday for the next...
Toyota reaches settlement over bullied engineer’s suicide
TOKYO — Japanese automaker Toyota has reached a settlement with the family of an engineer whose suicide was ruled a job-related death due to...
China trade surges as demand in US, other markets rebounds
BEIJING — China's exports surged nearly 28% in May while imports jumped 51% as demand rebounded in the U.S. and other markets where the...
As India’s surge wanes, families deal with the devastation
LUCKNOW, India — Two months ago Radha Gobindo Pramanik and his wife threw a party to celebrate their daughter's pregnancy and the upcoming birth...
MH17 trial moves to crucial merits phase, examining evidence
SCHIPHOL, Netherlands — Nearly seven years after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, the trial in a Dutch court of...
German military to ship surplus beer back from Afghanistan
BERLIN — The German military says it has found a solution for an unusual logistics problem its troops in Afghanistan face: a glut of...
Greece says many migrants in Turkey could seek asylum there
ATHENS, Greece — Greece on Monday designated neighboring Turkey as a safe country in which to seek international protection for the majority of asylum-seekers...
France tackles virus variants as it readies for tourists
French health authorities are racing to contain scattered cases of the more contagious delta virus variant, as France prepares to reopen its borders to...
Mine-sniffing rat Magawa ends years of hard work in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — After five years of sniffing out land mines and unexploded ordnance in Cambodia, Magawa is retiring.
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Asia-Pacific trade ministers mull pandemic, recovery
BANGKOK — Trade ministers from the Pacific Rim were discussing ways to build back better from the pandemic in an online meeting Saturday hosted...